Cmsellers, I hope you don't mind, but since white text isn't an effective prevention against spoilers, I went ahead and edited in the spoiler tag. I also left it white, for EXTRA PROTECTION. (You can delete the white if you want.)
Marceline is clearly the best character. Or one of the best. There's so many good characters in this show. The important thing is, we all must praise Marceline immediately. Everything about her character is brilliant, and the idea of a vampire who wants to be cured of vampirism is interesting. Yes, other vampires in other stories have expressed regret at being a vampire, but Marceline is the only one I know of who actually has the cure available to her. It's all the more interesting that her vampirism isn't even a significant burden since she doesn't have much need to consume blood.
I disagree about Martin. As Finn's father and one of the most notorious criminals in the multiverse, he had a lot of potential. He never did much because every episode featuring him was more about Finn's rage at him. Yeah, he's not a likable person, but that's what makes him great. He's like the Umbridge of the Adventure Time universe.
I think Adventure Time may be moving away from darker stuff. The existence of Martin was wonderfully dark. Finn puts all this energy into finally finding his father, and when he finally finds him, he turns out to basically be the worst person in the universe. It wasn't what I was expecting at all.
AdricDePsycho wrote:And I think you're forgetting something about the Ice King: he's still depicted as mental and dangerous. Remember Princess Monster Wife, when he Frankensteined himself a wife from the body parts of other princesses? Or when he lashed out at his living furniture in Friends Forever in a psychotic rage? He's still shown to be a threat in Stakes as well, since he manages to capture Finn pretty easily.
Mental, yes. Dangerous? Eh... Finn and Jake seem a lot more annoyed by him than scared. He doesn't have his act together, you can pretty much count on him screwing up his own evil plans somehow. Also, I haven't done a count, but I'm pretty damn certain most scenes featuring the Ice King these days are about his loneliness and loserdom. Lots of stuff about his weird personal habits, not much about actually being a threat to anyone in Ooo.
I don't think I have actually seen the Princess Monster Wife episode. That's weird, I thought I had seen them all. I need to catch up.
Besides, that was season 4. We're on season 8 now. Friends Forever was season 6, and it certainly depicts him as more "mental" than "dangerous." I mean, the episode is about his attacks on
furniture, relatively
friendly furniture at that, and in this battle
the furniture almost wins. I can't take a sociopathic ice wizard seriously who is almost destroyed by his own sentient lamps and keys.
I admit I don't recall him capturing Finn in Stakes, when did that happen?